Food and economy #لبنان

An official source said on Thursday that the Central Bank of Lebanon will not support fuel, wheat and medicine for more than three more months in light of dwindling foreign currency reserves.

Lebanese Economy Minister Raoul Nehme said that his country has 32 thousand tons of flour in addition to 110 tons that have arrived or will arrive within the next two weeks.

A report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs released on Tuesday said the World Food Program would send 50,000 tons of wheat flour to Lebanon to stabilize the country's supplies.

The United Nations World Food Program said it will import wheat flour and cereal flour intended for bakeries and mills to help prevent food shortages across Lebanon.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) expressed on Wednesday its fear of a "problem in the availability of flour" in Lebanon "in the short term" after the violent explosion that rocked the port of Beirut on Tuesday and destroyed its wheat silos.

The World Bank says it is ready to mobilize financing for Lebanon's post-explosion recovery

The Lebanese Minister of Economy, Raoul Neama, revealed the extent of the damage left by the Beirut port explosion, explaining that the explosion spoiled the wheat in the silos in the port.